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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending Dan “Shoe” Hsu has been writing some excellent pieces on the Sore Thumbs blog about the “behind the scenes” life of a video game journalist. (Mentally quote the word journalist if you want to make yourself feel better! -Ed.) The former Electronic Gaming Monthly editor in chief has recently been very blunt about the touchier subjects in games writing — accusations of bribery, the ethics of junkets, etc. — but now, it’s the PR side’s turn.
Thanks to the ever-busy PSP homebrew community it is now possible to link a PC and a PSP together via USB Cable and a little plugin by the name of RemoteJoy Lite. Using the app you can hook up your Windows PC with your handheld and play PSP games on the PC screen.
Truly, we live in a Golden Age.
The video above gives a rough idea of what the app can do. As ever with homebrew software, you are responsible for your own device – don’t come running to us if it makes your PSP implode into a nugget of dark matter that ultimately leads to the creation of an alternate universe where your evil doppleganger has a beard.
What’s this? Are Microsoft just feeling bullish after all those Xbox/Vesperia bundles sold out? Whatever the reason, Microsoft is feeling confident enough to send LIV Vice-prez John Schappert to the Tokyo Game Show with a keynote speech under his arm.
On October 9th at midday, Schappert will present his keynote address “A Canvas for the World” which will apparently lay out how the Xbox 360 will bring people together to enjoy “the next wave of interactive entertainment experiences”.
No, we don’t really know what that means either —- but we bet it is pretty flippin’ important. Who knows? Maybe MS are on a roll – by this time next year there could be an Xbox Elite in every self-respecting Japanese home.
Tokyo Game Show – John Schappert Keynote Address [Gamerscore Blog]
Japan and our pals in the PAL regions have been enjoying the glistening and rippling Cho Aniki on their Virtual Console services for many moons now. North America finally gets the homoerotic tinged side-scrolling shooter this Monday, as the title has been rated by rated by the ESRB — E-10+ for “mild suggestive themes” — and tentatively dated for September 8.
It will join its TurboGrafx-16 sibling Final Soldier, prepping us for the upcoming PSP remake of the same game and confusing the masses with its overly bizarre everything. Start your posing now.
Germany, you probably knew this was coming, given Dead Space‘s focus on blowing humanoid heads into fuck-all, but you won’t be getting your hands on the EA LA developed sci-fi horror game. And you won’t either, certain Asian territories. That’s according to the title’s community manager Ben Swanson, who writes on the game’s official blog “we’ve recently found out that Dead Space will be banned in Germany, China and Japan”.
And by “banned” we can assume that, at least in Germany’s case, Dead Space was refused classification by the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle, as many graphically violent games have been before it.
In Japan’s case, we’re not quite sure if Dead Space was “banned” or given a dreaded sales-killing Z-rating by the CERO ratings board, making it essentially a money losing venture to release it in that country.
And China? No idea.
In Germany, when not outright refused, as in the case of Gears of War, Army of Two and Crackdown, some titles have their content noticeably sanitised — see The Darkness. Based on our experiences with Dead Space, cleaning up the game would take some serious effort.
You know what else is sanitized in Germany? The public restrooms. The Germans know how to keep a toilet clean, people.
Good News Bad News [Dead Space via GameSpot]
So Many id Games! So Few Dollars! Valve just dropped word that this weekend, not only can you get a quintet of X-COM titles on the cheap through Steam, the “id Super Pack“, which is normally $US 70, will be going half-price. That means Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Final Doom, Doom III, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and much, much, much more for just $US 35. That’s less than the price of a cup of coffee every day for a month! Maybe. Zounds!
So Many id Games! So Few Dollars! Valve just dropped word that this weekend, not only can you get a quintet of X-COM titles on the cheap through Steam, the “id Super Pack“, which is normally $US 70, will be going half-price. That means Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Final Doom, Doom III, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and much, much, much more for just $US 35. That’s less than the price of a cup of coffee every day for a month! Maybe. Zounds!
Dated? Maybe a bit, but the frantic Sackboy air-humping in this attempt at viral marketing for LittleBigPlanet quickly won us over. We’re kind of easy that way. It was uploaded by Rovient, who just happens to have the same handle as a Media Molecule level designer (thanks, Marco!) but we shan’t hold that against them.
Typical — you wait years for a social network for gamers, then two roll up at once.
Yesterday we had Dennis Fong’s Raptr but this fine evening/afternoon/morning (delete as appropriate) we shall be looking at Vigster.
While Raptr was all about sharing your game scores and profiles from different networks (LIVE, PSN, Steam, etc.) Vigster has a more modest aim – a virtual games shelf, like a gamer’s version of book lover’s sites like Shelfari and WeRead.
After free signup, you can assemble a list of games that you own or play and find like-minded fellow gamers for fun and frolics. You can add reviews, videos and screengrabs of games, and submit tips and recommendations to your new pals. A discussion forum is on the way too. Vigster.com
The Secret Apprentice, Maris Brood and Rahm Kota will be hanging out at the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed party later this month when the game hits shelves.
The group of voice actors for the upcoming game will be joining some of the title’s development team at the Best Buy in San Francisco (1717 Harrison Street) on Monday, Sept. 15 to celebrate the game’s release.
The event will run from 7 p.m. to midnight and will also give gamers a change to play the game and have their photos taken with “some of their favourite Star Wars characters”. That better be a confirmation of Wookie.
